Sugar Hall: A Ghost Story

It’s Easter 1955 and as Lilia scrapes the ice from the inside of the windows, and the rust from the locks, but there are pasts that lurk with the moths in the folds of the drapes at Sugar Hall that she cannot reach. Moldering in the English border countryside the red gardens of Sugar Hall hold a secret, and as Britain waits for its last hanging, Lilia and her children must confront a history that has been buried but not forgotten. Based on the stories of the Black Boy that surround Littledean Hall in the Forest of Dean, this is a superbly chilling ghost story.

About the Author

Tiffany Murray is the author of Diamond Star Halo and Happy Accidents, both short-listed for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. Guardian critics selected Diamond Star Halo as one of the best of the fiction year in 2010. She has had short fiction and nonfiction published in various magazines and collections, and features in national newspapers including the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Times. She teaches creative writing at the National Writers’ Centre for Wales and for the Arvon Foundation, and is a senior lecturer at the University of Glamorgan.

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